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#PaperbackMonday is a simple retweet competition where the winner walks away with ANY PAPERBACK BOOK from this 3-for-2 bestsellers display (see above pic).

How it works:

– Every Monday, we’ll tweet several competition tweets on our @BlackwellMcr account, tagged with #PaperbackMonday. Retweet any one of them. ONE WINNING RETWEETER (must be following too) is picked at random at 5pm on Monday.

– We’ll DM our winner for their details. The winner has TWO WEEKS to come and pick a free book from our 3-for-2 bestsellers on our ground floor – your choice!

– Collection only.

– The following will not be able to win: Blackwell’s employees amd their close family, awful generic competition-entry Twitter accounts, people who have won fairly recently,people who obviously live too far away to collect, the CEO of Am*z*n, my Aunt Nellie.

The sprouts have long settled into that uncomfortable part of your body and you’ve already broken a dozen resolutions. Let’s take your mind off things with our bestsellers for December 2013. You may notice a slightly non-academic flavour to your favourite Christmas purchases!…

Our bestseller two months in a row. Fergie’s book has kicked all opposition into, er, the back of the net. No. Fergie’s book has shown the red card to all its opposition. That’s better. We’re not too good at football metaphors.

Chuck signed for us at the Anthony Burgess centre on a whistle-stop tour of two cities in one night. We would drizzle this entry with as much knowing sarcasm as the rest of this blog post, but he was quite brilliant: funny, shocking and moving. Soon to be available as a Penguin Classic.

The lead singer of Girls Aloud writes about guesting on drums for Queens of the Stone Age following his international smash hit album Graceland. The passage about his Hanson tribute act with John Lennon and the Black Eyed Peas’ apl.de.ap is particularly illuminating.

Insert equally witty nonsense blurb about obscure football teams and historical Division One players, wedging in the old pub quiz answer about Stockport County being closest to the River Mersey and something about football teams with X in the name.

3 – UK Economy custom book (a special book made for the course) (yes, we really do that) (it’s got proper words and everything)

The singer’s tale of his time in the Smiths and, well, everything else – from school dinners to court battles – created controversy when it was released under the Penguin Classics imprint. But it hasn’t stopped people buying it.

We are tweeting single words from the book all day today for those that can’t be bothered to read the 800+ pages. Follow us on Twitter here.